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"Copenhagen was the port she sailed for calling at Akureyri, in Iceland," quietly explained the dominie. "Go on, Halcro." I then described the captain's room, and told of the man I had seen lying dead in the sleeping bunk. I spoke of the diamond ring. "Have you got that ring?" asked the magistrate. "Yes," I said, feeling in my waistcoat pocket and producing it from the folds of a piece of muslin.
He had then, for a few years, been living in the north-country town of Akureyri, which obviously provides the model for the setting of the story. It was first printed in the 1905 issue of the periodical Skírnir. In addition to the travelled, academic realists, there appeared a group of self-educated popular writers, some of whom had come into direct contact with this foreign school.
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